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Hyssopus officinalis (hyssop)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Hyssopus officinalis or hyssop is a(n) herbaceous plant of the genus Hyssopus native to Southern Europe, the Middle East, and the region surrounding the Caspian Sea. Due to its properties as an antiseptic, cough reliever, and expectorant, it is commonly used as a medicinal plant.
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Infraspecies

Hyssopus officinalis aristatus
Hyssopus officinalis austro-oranensis
Hyssopus officinalis canescens
Hyssopus officinalis montanus
Hyssopus officinalis officinalis

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees
Scent [2]  The flowers have a rich aromatic fragrance.
Structure [2]  Shrub
Usage [2]  Hyssop can be grown as a dwarf hedge, it responds well to trimming in the spring; The growing plant attracts cabbage white butterflies away from brassicas; Another report says that hyssop attracts cabbage white butterflies and should not be grown near cabbages; An essential oil from the leaves is antiseptic and also used in perfumery and as a food flavouring; It has a particularly fine odour and is much valued by perfumers; Average yields of the oil are about 0.6%; Yields from the blue-flowered variety are 1 - 1.5% essential oil, the red-flowered variety yields about 0.8%, whilst the white-flowered form yields 0.5% essential oil; The plant was formerly used as a strewing herb; A tea made from the leaves is useful for controlling bacterial plant diseases; Plants can be grown for ground cover when spaced about 45cm apart each way;
Height [2]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Width [2]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Light Preference [4]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [4]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [4]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [4]  Very Dry
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Luberon Regional Nature Park V 406572 France  
Palava Protected Landscape Area V   Czech Republic  
Saint Lawrence Islands National Park II   Ontario, Canada

Predators

Capra ibex (ibex)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces biocellatus[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Ellenberg, H., Weber, H.E., Dull, R., Wirth, V., Werner, W., Paulissen, D. (1991) Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Scripta Geobotanica 18, 1–248
♦ 5Food plants and feeding habits of Himalayan ungulates, Anjali Awasthi, Sanjay Kr. Uniyal, Gopal S. Rawat and S. Sathyakumar, CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 85, NO. 6, 25 SEPTEMBER 2003
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0